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What stories can we write?
Should you write only from your lived experience? Is it possible for a writer to write with care, humanity, and empathy someone who has a different experience than them?
I talk about this frequently in my creative writing classes. Should a...
A crime statistic that gobsmacked me
Think about the county you live in. For me, this is Blue Earth County in southern Minnesota.
Now, what do you think would happen if in the last 20 years, 26 women had gone missing or were murdered in your county? And on top of that, what...
Sexist prosecutorial narratives help obtain death row convictions for women
Rachel Louise Snyder wrote a compelling and informational opinion piece on how sexist narratives spun by prosecutors result in death row sentences for women.
Some of the more striking statistics in Snyder’s Sept. 17, 2026, New York Times a...
Mission statements for writers: Part 1
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I decided a few years ago to create a mission statement for myself as a writer. I was inspired by artist statements, the kind you see if you go to a gallery wherein the artist explains their philosophy...
The toll of writing darkness
I’ve written dark before. My memoir, We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down, was about growing up with frequent visits to cemeteries and funeral homes because my dad was a gravedigger. And then he died, so I had to figure out how to move fr...
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I'm a writer and teacher of creative nonfiction. My current project is a collection of essays about true crime narratives.
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